How to clean the computer keyboard

Dr William Rutala of the University of North Carolina, in the Journal of Infectious Control and hospital epidemiology, points out that common bacteria on computer keyboards, such as Streptococcus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Chlamydia trachomatis, can lead to digestive diseases, skin diseases and eye disease, if not cleaned up in time. The survey shows that the office computer keyboard inside the good stuff is on average 2 grams per month increase in speed.

Experts advise you to regularly follow these steps to the computer keyboard to do a "cleaning" to clean up the dirt:

1. Slap the keyboard. Turn off the computer and remove the keyboard from the host. Put a newspaper on the desk, flip the keyboard upside down, 10 centimeters from the table, and flap and shake. You will find that there are a lot of "stock" out of the keyboard: In addition to dust, there are biscuits residue, coffee, rubber crumbs, hair, silk and so on.

2. Blow out sundry goods. Use a hairdryer to blow the gap on the keyboard key to blow away the clutter attached to it, and then flip the keyboard upside down and shake the flap again.

3. Scrub the surface. Dip the diluted detergent in a soft cloth (note that the soft cloth is not too wet) and scrub the button surface. Then use the vacuum cleaner brush to suck the keyboard again, you can remove the residue of the above program to suck it out.

4. Disinfection. After the keyboard scrub clean, it may be dipped in alcohol, disinfectant liquid or medicinal hydrogen peroxide and other disinfection treatment, and finally dry cloth will be the surface of the keyboard dry.

5. Clean thoroughly. If you want to do a thorough cleaning of the keyboard, you'll have to remove each button's cap. Common keyboard key Cap part is removable, you can use small screwdriver or scoop them down, in accordance with the corner from the keyboard area to the middle part of the order, the space bar and enter key and other large button caps more difficult to return to the original, so try not to dismantle. In order to avoid forgetting the position of these key caps, it is best to take a picture of the keyboard layout or draw a sketch with the camera. After removing the key cap, soak it in a detergent or disinfectant solution and scrub the keyboard base with a flannel or disinfectant paper towel